damn i'd love to make my own faction, or at least my own, original unit
you can already conquer the whole world as any bloody country, how about let me make my own faction
that'd own

I'm pissed CA removed it from the game. It's bogus how they went all through the trouble advertising the feature when later on their only excuse of a joke was the uniform editor was never meant for public use.

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Mortars with exploding shells thinned them out nicely on the advance. Amazons held them back from my line for quite some time(Women from africa have 90 range and ~50 accuracy wtf) Then shit went horribly wrong after some of Spain's militia engaged my line infantry in melee and my mortars decided to target them as a priority killing most of that line regiment and severely wounding the Garrison Guards behind them.

I wish I had a navy I allied with Venice from the very beginning and we fed off each others powerful trade fleets in the Ivory Coast. Now it's ~1730 and I own all of Italy minus Venice, which is the only city with an admiralty in that region. The Venetians only own Venice after Russia rolled through Greece which made them build 3 full armies. 1 in the city, 1 outside, and 1 at sea. I just want decent ships to even stand a chance against Spain's massive Galleon spam.

Can somebody sum up the strategy to building ships in campaign and naval battles? Currently my strategies in Napoleon are "put trade ships in the corner and hope France doesn't find them" and "Auto-Resolve" respectively.

Can somebody sum up the strategy to building ships in campaign and naval battles? Currently my strategies in Napoleon are "put trade ships in the corner and hope France doesn't find them" and "Auto-Resolve" respectively.

I make a stack of trading ships, then put the biggest ship in my navy next to it.

Often this results in 20 trade ships hogging a spot, and an ironclad sitting next to it. I love ironclads in NTW. (Despite the fact they look the exact same as 80 gun steamships)

In battles themselves, I try to use as few ships as possible, and make them quite heavy ones too. I have them try to fire a broadside, and then move to the other side as quickly as possible to fire off another and manuever so as to keep slowly sailing away from the enemy, whilst giving a broadside with each turn.

If you imagine my ship starting at the top of a "S" and then following it down the way, then repeating it over and over that is similar to how I do it.

Later on in-game I tend to make my navies composed of 38 gun steamships and ironclads.

Siege AI is hilarious in NTW. There was a hole in one of my walls, and the entire french army tried to fit through it. Grenadiers solved that with their bombs.

Napoleon himself was leading that army, some genius he was.

Reminds me of playing Spain in Kingdoms. Siege an Aztec settlement until they sally forth. Send in 4-5 native warrior mercenaries stacks to engage them in melee as soon as they step 5 feet out of their city gates. Then open fire, blindly, into the massive melee with culverins firing exploding shells. Take ~200 casualties to their ~1200

Reminds me of playing Spain in Kingdoms. Siege an Aztec settlement until they sally forth. Send in 4-5 native warrior mercenaries stacks to engage them in melee as soon as they step 5 feet out of their city gates. Then open fire, blindly, into the massive melee with culverins firing exploding shells. Take ~200 casualties to their ~1200

Invest in conquistadors. They are insanely powerful against native units. Get a general with high dread, and 5 or 6 units is enough to devastate almost any native army.

Re-installing Shogun 2 because I have all day to play it and never really got my moneys worth from it, is it worth buying the DLC?

I don't think so. The units are smaller and there aren't as many, and they change up the buildings in ways I don't care for.
Definitely get the blood pack though. Dudes get their arms and faces cut right off.

Darthmod. It's the only way I can play Empire nowadays because it makes the game feel complete.

There are two versions of that mod as well: the full mod experience, Darthmod 7.0 or something and then there's the version that improves the game and adds some new units but keeps it closer to vanilla Empire without dramatically changing everything. That's the one I play and I think it's great.